namashi_1 The Third Film in the Lethal Weapon Series, 'Lethal Weapon 3' is Pure Fun! A Fantastic Entertainer, the benefits from a Crisp Screenplay & Impeccable Performances by its Screen-Heroes. 'Lethal Weapon 3' Synopsis: Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh pursue an arms dealer who is a former LAPD officer.I have seen all the Lethal Weapons, all 4 of them & I have enjoyed each of them. In my opinion, this 4-part Buddy-Cop Series are amongst the best moments from Hollywood History.'Lethal Weapon' is crisply Written by Jeffrey Boam & Robert Mark Kamen. Its engaging all through. Richard Donner's Direction is top-class. Cinematography is eye-filling. Editing is well-done. Action-Sequences are outstanding. Performance-Wise: Mel Gibson & Danny Glover are impeccable. As Riggs & Rog, both of the supremely talented actors are a joy to watch. Their On-Screen chemistry, is amazing. Rene Russo is perfect. Joe Pesci provides comic relief. Stuart Wilson is effective as the menace.On the whole, 'Lethal Weapon 3' is vintage entertainment at its best!

BA_Harrison Has any movie franchise sunk as far and as rapidly as the Lethal Weapon series did with Part 3? The original film and its first sequel always had an element of comedy to go with the gritty action, but in this third instalment the humour is brought to the fore (and the nastiness toned down); the result is absolutely cringe-worthy, as tough cops Riggs and Murtaugh (Mel Gibson and Danny Glover) are regularly turned into incompetent clowns for the amusement of a younger demographic.From the opening scene in which Riggs stupidly attempts to diffuse a bomb with disastrous results, to the end credits sequence in which Riggs, clearly having not learnt his lesson, considers diffusing yet another bomb, Lethal Weapon 3 is an embarrassment to the action genre. Jeffery Boam, who did such a good job with Part 2, completely screws up here, his plot being predictable and dull and the characters frequently acting against type just for laughs. Worse still, Boam brings back shifty Leo Getz (Joe Pesci), making him even more obnoxious and irritating than before.Once again, Riggs is given a love interest—internal affairs cop Lorna Cole (Rene Russo)—but this chapter being a tamer affair aimed at the whole family, she doesn't get a sex scene (thankfully sparing the viewer yet another Mel Gibson ass shot) and doesn't wind up swimming with the fishes like poor old Patsy Kensit's Rika; instead, Lorna joins in with the crime-fighting fun, proving to be as handy with her fists and guns as the guys. All of this nonsense is accompanied by the series' terrible signature sax and guitar score, which only goes to make matters even more intolerable.

AaronCapenBanner Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, and Joe Pesci return for this overly comedic, and routine sequel, which finds them going after a corrupt former cop, now illegal arms dealer, whose guns have gotten on the streets in Muratugh's own neighborhood, hitting him personally, while Riggs meets his female counterpart in the form of policewoman Lorna(played by Rene Russo) who is just as tough as he is, and with prodding, just as reckless.Overlong and too preachy, sequel feels watered down with a misdirected "family" feel to the story, rather than the hard edged action of before, though that won't stop Lorna and Riggs from threatening a suspect with being crushed by a car! Not a "cat"astrophe, but a disappointment.

david-sarkies Lethal Weapon 3 is a fairly average movie. I have seen it a few times and it might have been funny the first time, but it came out very average the next few times. I vaguely remember promising to lend it to my sister, well she can keep it for all I care because it is not one of those movies that I really desire to have in my collection.The story is simple. An ex-cop, Jack Travis, is stealing weapons and ammunition from police store houses and selling them. Myrtal (Danny Glover) kills a friend of his son when while being shot at, and armour piercing ammo is on the streets. There is little in the way of holding the story together and it seems that it is just endless action without a strong story. Pursuing Jack Travis does take a major part of the movie, but that major part does not make a smooth plot. Rather it seems to me more of an excuse to have numerous action scenes in differing styles.One of the more subtle ideas in the movie is the re-emergence of the macho man over the strong woman. Lorna Cole (Rene Ruso) is an internal affairs agent who is tough and happens to run across Sergant Riggs (Mel Gibson) and the movie falls into a struggle between Riggs and Cole. There is the subtle desire within Riggs character that being the male he must always be dominant over the female, and this is seen in the scene where he brings Cole into the male toilets to talk. This idea of male dominance comes out even more in the scene where they are comparing scars. The whole concept evolves around the desire for the male to emerge once again as the dominant sex while the female sex is fighting to take that role. In the end the female is not forced back into the role of the house-wife, but rather as the man's servant. She is welcome to take on stronger roles as long as the man is always superior.I cannot remember the first two Lethal Weapons but I find that Lethal Weapon 3 is quite average and only worth a side comment.